The world is in the midst of a significant demographic transition with important implications for the macroeconomic performance of the global economy. This paper summarises the key features of the ...

Over the five decades or so from 1950, Asia has witnessed a dramatic demographic transition, affecting the population growth rate, deaths and births. It has implications for the environment, schooling ...

Sub-Saharan Africa could reap significant benefits from its growing population—if the transition is well managed Sub-Saharan Africa’s most formidable economic asset could soon be its people. As the ...

The variations in the initiation, course, speed and terminations of demographic transitions may involve cultural and temporal specificities as well as historic incidents. In this article there is an ...

Social analysts have generally paid too little attention to demographic trends, as conventional wisdom holds that rapid population growth inhibits improvement in living standards. This short monograph ...

Following the launch of the recent United Nations Population Fund (UNFPA) report on the state of the world’s population, there has been much worry that the size of Bangladesh’s population has now ...

Download PDF More Formats on IMF eLibrary Order a Print Copy Create Citation The world is in the midst of a major demographic transition. This paper examines the implications of such transition over ...

China’s declining fertility rate is shaped by a combination of structural and cultural factors. The one-child policy left a long-term legacy, but rising living costs, urbanization, and changing values ...

Studies of evolutionary change require an estimate of fitness, and lifetime reproductive success is widely used for this purpose. However, many species face a trade-off between the number and quality ...